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The Borrowers
MEANRANK
61/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 49, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 73. Critics average 73, everyone else 58.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.
Details
- Director
- Peter Hewitt
- Writers
- Gavin Scott, John Kamps
- Released
- 5 December 1997
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $29.0M
- Box office
- $22.6M
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